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Teachers' Workshop


What are 21st century skills?


The 21st century skills are a set of abilities that students need to develop in order to succeed in the information age. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills lists three types:

Learning Skills
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Collaborating
Communicating

Literacy Skills
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Technology Literacy

Life Skills
Flexibility
Initiative Social Skills
Productivity
Leadership

21st Century Standards


  • Focus on 21st century skills, content knowledge and expertise.
  • Build understanding across and among academic subjects as well as 21st century interdisciplinary themes
  • Emphasize deep understanding rather than shallow knowledge
  • Engage students with the real world data, tools, and experts they will encounter in college, on the job, and in life--students learn best when actively engaged in solving meaningful problems
  • Allow for multiple measures of mastery

Characteristics of 21st Century

At this workshop , the teachers were given detailed information about the 21st century education teachers, students and classrooms. Including 21st century skills and literacies.


21st Century Teachers


21st Century Classrooms , which is which ?


21st Century Learners


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Assessment of 21st Century Skills
  • Support a balance of assessments, including high-quality standardized testing along with effective classroom formative and summative assessments
  • Emphasize useful feedback on student performance that is embedded into everyday learning
  • Require a balance of technology-enhanced, formative and summative assessments that measure student mastery of 21st century skills
  • Enable development of portfolios of student work that demonstrate mastery of 21st century skills to educators and prospective employers
  • Enable a balanced portfolio of measures to assess the educational system's effectiveness at reaching high levels of student competency in 21st century skills

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